A05AA Bile acid preparations

A05AA01 Chenodeoxycholic acid

Chenodeoxycholic acid

Chenodeoxycholic acid is a bile acid. It occurs as a white crystalline substance insoluble in water but soluble in alcohol and acetic acid, with melting point at 165-167 °C. Salts of this carboxylic acid are called chenodeoxycholates...

A05AA02 Ursodeoxycholic acid

A05AA03 Cholic acid

Cholic acid

Cholic acid is a bile acid, a white crystalline substance insoluble in water , with a melting point of 200-201 °C. Salts of cholic acid are called cholates. Cholic acid, along with chenodeoxycholic acid, is one of two major bile acids produced by the liver where it is synthesized from cholesterol...

A05AB Preparations for biliary tract therapy

A05AB01 Nicotinyl methylamide

Nicotinyl methylamide

Nicotinyl methylamide is a drug used in bile therapy. It is also a metabolite of nicotinamide ....

A05AX Other drugs for bile therapy

A05AX01 Piprozolin

Piprozolin

Piprozolin is a molecule used in bile therapy....

A05AX02 Hymecromone

Hymecromone

Hymecromone is a drug used in bile therapy. It is used as choleretic and antispasmodic drugs and as a standard for the fluorometric determination of enzyme activity....

A05AX03 Cyclobutyrol

Cyclobutyrol

Cyclobutyrol is a drug used in bile therapy....

QA05AX90 Menbutone

A05BA Liver therapy

A05BA01 Arginine glutamate

Arginine glutamate

Arginine glutamate is a mixture of two amino acids, arginine and glutamic acid, used in liver therapy....

A05BA03 Silymarin

A05BA04 Citiolone

Citiolone

Citiolone is a drug used in liver therapy. It is a derivative of the amino acid cysteine....

A05BA05 Epomediol

Epomediol

Epomediol is a synthetic terpenoid with choleretic effects. It has been used in the symptomatic treatment of itching due to intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy....

A05BA06 Ornithine oxoglutarate

Ornithine oxoglutarate

Ornithine oxoglutarate or ornithine α-ketoglutarate is a drug used in liver therapy. It is the salt formed from ornithine and alpha-ketoglutaric acid. It is also used to improve nutritional health in elderly patients....

A05BA07 Tidiacic arginine

Tidiacic arginine

Tidiacic arginine is a drug marketed as a hepatoprotective. It is a 1:1 combination of the amino acid arginine and tidiacic , which acts as a sulfur donor....

A05BA08 Glycyrrhizic acid (glycyrrhizin)

QA05BA90 Methionine

Methionine

Methionine is an α-amino acid with the chemical formula HO2CCHCH2CH2SCH3. This essential amino acid is classified as nonpolar. This amino-acid is coded by the codon AUG, also known as the initiation codon, since it indicates mRNA's coding region where translation into protein...